Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother's Courage - Softcover

Mahmoody, Betty; Hoffer, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312925883 ISBN 13: 9780312925888

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1991

Synopsis

In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child...

Now the true story of this courageous woman and her breathtaking odyssey bursts upon the screen in the Pathe Entertainment production starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!

Not Without My Daughter is a Literary Guild Alternate Selection.

About this title

About the Author:

Betty Mahmoody is an author and public speaker, best known for her book Not Without My Daughter, the basis of the film by the same name.

From Library Journal:

Betty Lover met the perfect "dark stranger" in a Michigan hospital. Her Iranian therapist, Dr. Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody, became her husband and the father of their daughter, Mahtob. Despite the vicissitudes of the Iran-U.S. hostage crisis, Betty and he flourished until their summer "vacation" in Iran in 1984. The next year and a half were a nightmare. Betty and Mahtob, held hostage by Mahmoody and his family, were subjected to Islamic fundamentalism, Persian nationalistic fanaticism, and a life of squalor. This compelling tale of their terror and escape from Iran is recommended for most libraries. Literary Guild alternate. David P. Snider, Casa Grande P.L., Ariz .
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About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312925883
• ISBN 13: 9780312925888
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 420